[TriLUG] mhonarc

[Randy Barlow]

matt1027 wrote:
> Mandriva has been bogging down lately to the point of being unusable.  
> top shows a program called mhonarc that is using 70% of memory.  
> Google search shows it is some kind of program that generates html 
> archives from various mail formats, which I have no idea where it came 
> from or how it got going.  When I do a kill 4465 (the pid) it just 
> keeps going.
You could try kill -s KILL 4465 (sometimes the plain old kill command 
doesn't really kill things...)  Anybody have any elaborations on why 
this works by the way?  I've been using it for a while just because it 
works, but don't really understand the differences between kill and kill 
-s KILL.  Thanks!